8 Powerful Latinx Poets Who Are Shattering Stereotypes

To close out National Poetry Month and honor May Day and Cinco de Mayo, check out these eight Latinx poets and prepare to have your mind blown.

Latinidad is often represented as a monolithic set of values steeped in white supremacy, instead of presenting all of our vastly different and diverse lived experiences. Poetry is one medium that helps shatter the stereotypes often plaguing the Latinx experience. Here are eight unique voices who explore and celebrate the richness of diverse Latinx identities.

Remember this..specially on the days where that caucasian university feels more like a prison than an opportunityon the days where you are the only thing with colorremember..Europe has two good hands, two good feet..and all they have ever done with themis steal and runfrom people who look like youEuropean exceptionalism is a mythit wouldn’t exist if they didn’t rob youthe bright one here is youthe hero in the story is you.

Nazly is a Persian-Venezuelan organizer, writer and trauma informed yoga teacher who has worked in various communities in the US, Latin America and the Middle East. She is fluent in Spanish, Farsi & Arabic and is a classically trained violinist. Nazly is also the founder of La Feminista Descolonial, a Spanish-language intersectional feminista platform designed to spark activism & facilitate dialogue in various Spanish speaking communities from an anti capitalist, anti racist, anti oppressive & decolonized perspective. Nazly is determined to unapologetically exist and resist in the world while grounding her work in transformative practices in order to lay the foundation for global movement building.